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Up to September 1995 none of the 9 new South African provinces have adopted
their own flags although one or two have proposals in this regard. There
is currently a debate in this country as to wether the provinces should have
their own flags or not with the ANC holding the view that the provinces should
not have individual flags.
Bruce Berry - September 1995
There are discussions for a flag for the new province of KwaZulu-Natal. A
provincial constitution has been tabled before the Constitutional Court but
has been referred back for further amendment. This is the most critical issue
and the question of a provincial flag (or Arms) has not received much attention
over the past 18 months.
Bruce Berry - 19 February 1998
In southeast South Africa, reorganized from the former
Natal province minus local parts of Transkei. Borders
Eastern Cape (with exclave), Free State, Mpumalanga, Mozambique, Swaziland
and Lesotho.
Includes the former homeland of
KwaZulu.
Antonio Martins - 30 May 1999
In a TV reportage there was a group of Zulu; they waved their symbol: a black
and white shield. It has the same shape of the shield in KwaZulu's flag (KwaZulu
was another homeland in South Africa) and it looked like the Emasotsha's
shield in Swaziland's flag.
giuseppe bottasini
May I welcome the fact that we have a member from South Africa to ask a question
I have in mind for years. Is there , or was there at a time a flag for the
Zulu people?
Philippe Bondurand - 1998-02-19
Prior to colonialism the Zulu tribal shields were the main form of symbolic
identity.
Once subjugated, the flags of Britain, the Boers and finally those of the
Union (and later Republic) of South Africa flew over Zululand. As part of
the apartheid policy of creating "ethnically" based Homelands, the KwaZulu
homeland was created on 11 March 1970. A KwaZulu flag was adopted on 31 August
1977 and later changed on 14 January 1985. These flags are illustrated on
Mark Sensen's Flags of the 19th and 20th Centuries homepage. The KwaZulu
flag ceased to be official on the eve of the inauguration of Nelson Mandela
and the creation of a united South Africa on 26 April 1994.
Bruce Berry - 1998-02-19